Re: best laptop for Visual Studio

Hi Rich,

I have several different desktops and a laptop, each with Visual Studio 2005
& 2008 on them. All of my machines are at least 4 years old and have one
single-core cpu in them and VS runs without problems on all of them (I also
run multiple instances of VS fairly often).

I think the biggest thing that will help you is RAM, while I do belive that
1GB would be "fine", more RAM always equals better performance overall.

My comments about Vista were just that because Vista requires a more robust
hardware setup, that setup would also generally translate to better VS
performance.

I do have VS running on XP machines as well as a Vista laptop and I don't
see any differences that you could attribute directly to the OS.

One interesting note, I have noticed that VS 2008 seems to run MUCH more
quickly and is MUCH more responsive than VS 2005.


"Rich" <lol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the input, Scott.

There are still low-end laptops on the market with Celerons and other
single-core processors. I don't really think that's what I want to buy
but
need some confidence that the extra money I spend will get me what I need.

Also, you can still get laptops with XP installed on them. Again, that's
not something I am really considering, unless it would truly enhance the
experience of using Visual Studio on the machine. Are you suggesting that
the hardware requirements of Vista are such that Studio would run better
on
an XP platform, assuming the same hardware configuration?

Personally, I don't think that Studio 2005 runs "just fine" on a 2.66MHz
single processor but you seem to think that any dual core processor with a
gig of memory probably will.

Since it's not your money being spent here, I think I need to do a little
more fact-finding.

--
Richard Laird, MCSD.NET


"Scott M." wrote:

I think that any new machine is going to be dual core based at this
point,
so that's not really even a consideration at this point.

Also, with Vista coming on most new machines and because it has pretty
strong hardware requirements of its own, you're going to be looking at,
at
least 1MB of RAM. But, in a laptop it is always a good idea to get the
biggest hard drive and most RAM you can afford as upgrading later is not
as
easy (or cheap) as upgrading a desktop.

Honestly, any new machine these days will probably run VS just fine, but
when you consider that the new machine will most likely be a dual core
with
at least a MB of RAM, you are going to be just fine.

-Scott


"Rich" <lol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm probably going to buy a new laptop pretty soon and I've been
deciding
what to get. I'll be using it with Visual Studio a lot.

If your running a couple of instances of Studio plus the Web
Development
Server and maybe SQL Server or other things, the memory consumption
adds
up
pretty fast - so, I'm thinking in terms of probably 2 Gig of memory.
But
I
have a much less clear idea of what kind of processor I should get.
Currently, I do most of my work on a couple of desktop machines with
clock
speeds around 2.66 MgHz - and I'm often dissapointed in the performance
of
Visual Studio, even when running fairly simple things. Compiles
generally
run OK but apps don't always seem to load and run the way I'd like -
and
that
seems to be true of Web Apps, Windows Forms, or anything else.

I believe Visual Studio uses separate threads for debugging and other
things
(like the Web Development Server?). So it would seem as if Dual Core
processors, like the Intel T7300(2.0MgHZ) or T7400 (2.0MgHZ) might
actually
be an improvement over what I'ver been using. Any processor that's a
lot
better than a T7400 would really start to stretch my budget.

It's also making me curious about questions like whether I'm better off
putting my money into a faster processor, a bigger cache, or what.

I'd really appreciate knowing what anyone else's experiences have
been -
or
any thoughts or suggestions you might have.

Thanks in advance.
--
Richard Laird, MCSD.NET





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